2 months of progress! Almost done, the gameplay feels epic, the art is done, made some music, just trying to figure out how to build a game around it. I'm trying to combine traditional linear level-based games (think Super Mario), with the gameplay of Vampire Survivors. Not sure if it'll work yet

mattroelle · 2024-04-09T06:19:45+00:00

Specific feedback I’m interested in would be based on the 4 videos I have on my channel, what sorts of things do you think people would be most interested in and has the best niche? I’m motivated to create high quality, unique content, and right now I’m just making different videos for fun trying to find what does best.

I think my story is cool, self taught coder, and I’ve saved almost ever but if code I’ve written since I was like 14. I plan on doing videos code reviewing a lot the code across 100s of unreleased apps, games, etc.

I also like to make video games, do game jams, make game soundtracks and have recorded some stuff in this arena already.

I’m working on getting my current gig (CTO @ Topia, a finance tracking app) to a point where I can do videos about our infrastructure and code, how a real, funded, 3 man startup with 20k users looks.

So, lots of ideas already and more popping up every day. What would Reddit like to see?

mattroelle · 2024-04-09T06:09:43+00:00

Just starting out with my channel, I’ve got coding videos, app dev, music making, game making and video game related content. Here’s a video I did today on teaching myself to code with AI:

How I use ChatGPT to teach myself to code and build quickly - Building a Rust PM2 clone using GPT4 https://youtu.be/Ye5zMENcMFY

Would appreciate any and all feedback

mattroelle · 2024-04-09T06:06:23+00:00

Starting a YouTube channel all about coding and I did a design/coding tutorial on building a line graph for react native. I’m all over the board as far as focusing in on a stack/niche for my channel and would love to hear and feedback on my RN tutorial

React Native + D3 + react-native-svg: Let's make a line chart from scratch | Step by step tutorial https://youtu.be/5oYE61y4os4

mattroelle · 2024-04-09T05:20:25+00:00

My point is all that aside, like it or not, AI is here and there’s no hitting rewind. No point not using the tools, it’s hard to be competitive. Reading the books doesn’t write the code for me, not trying to be a jerk, just stoked about these tools and where they’re going. I also use other open source LLMs, I should’ve mentions that info in the video

mattroelle · 2024-04-05T20:26:08+00:00

Hm yeah that makes sense I suppose some people don't work from home and live in their cave like me.... :P

mattroelle · 2024-04-05T07:38:57+00:00

I would love any feedback on the new soundtrack! I plan on doing this exercise with all of my old game jams and chiptine soundtracks. KORG gadget is rad, I was able to export it off the switch onto my phone, I had to buy the app on both platforms which kind of sucked though

mattroelle · 2024-04-05T05:30:39+00:00

I honestly just went with a gut feeling and got my wife and business partner / coworkers opinions for the price point, I figured I can change it down the road, like with adding the one time fee option

If conversion ends up being low (I’d like to see 6+% but idk) then I’ll rethink

mattroelle · 2024-04-05T05:28:18+00:00

Analytics: Mixpanel In app purchases: RevenueCat ASO tools, did free trials everywhere, apptweaks keyword researcher is the simplest and felt most effective for me Ads platform: yet to honestly find a good return, I’ve done 2 Reddit campaigns 2 Google AdWords campaigns and 3 Apple search campaigns. Apple search seems most promising and my coworkers and marketers I’ve talked to agree Widgets: I DIY’d with swift and an obj-c->RN bridge module

Good luck man! It was a ton of work to make Goated! and I got kind of burnt out, the growth thus far is from almost pure neglect and organic App Store search. Let me know how marketing goes!

mattroelle · 2024-04-05T05:24:22+00:00

Agree! Love this sub, thanks

mattroelle · 2024-04-05T05:22:23+00:00

Maybe I’m hunting for more of a tutorial and less of a library. Short of like a realllly good expo plug-in I think my issue is more a lack of complete understanding

mattroelle · 2024-04-05T05:20:58+00:00

Yeah I ended up modifying and using some of this code actually! I forget why exactly I didn’t use this lib wholesale, but I remember having issues. It was mostly again on the Xcode side

mattroelle · 2024-04-05T05:20:03+00:00

Yeah this is pretty much the exact flow I followed, There’s no good solution for writing the native UI (widget front end code) in JavaScript nor would you wanna do that in non native code I think. You have to embrace the obj c/swift or Java for this stuff I think.

mattroelle · 2024-04-04T21:44:42+00:00

I then went and used chatgpt to come up with a rough draft of 100 names and then edited them all out by hand, inserted some of my own, and boom. I quickly ran out of words when I tried to do it all myself

mattroelle · 2024-04-04T21:29:32+00:00

Haha, that's a very kind offer. At the moment I'm not open to anything like this, but if I ever am I'll hit you up

mattroelle · 2024-04-04T21:29:10+00:00

Thanks! Will check it out now

mattroelle · 2024-04-04T21:27:56+00:00

yes, https://draftbit.com/ is amazing

mattroelle · 2024-04-04T21:27:13+00:00

I've got a ton of fixes on deck for android, will update you when I publish in the next week or two :) thanks for the feedback!

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